Dammit Mitsuki!
How can you tell otaku to stop being delusional?!
Normal people can go die in a fire!
Yumeria's and my uncontrollable delusions even created a fake Blue since Mitsuki wasn't around!
We won with the help of the real Mitsuki, but our delusions keep getting more and more powerful...
What's going to happen next?!
Good work on your mission!
Thank you.
Hakase, can I get something to eat? I haven't had anything since this morning...
Righty-o. Kozkoz, could you get him some curry?
Gon, Safari, or Dino, which style would you like?
I think... Safari.
That scared me... what kind of cosplay is this?
Pi pi. An alien, pe po!
Oh, okay... so you're receiving signals from space?
Pi pa. My mama will be visiting this world today, pi pi.
You mean... your actual mother is coming?
That means... you live by yourself?
Pi pa.
Where are you from originally?
The Mount-Pear Galaxy, pe po.
Mount pear?
Oh, Yamanashi!
Pe po.
Her mother...
This is a true Sentai stock plot, the "parental visit" episode!
Yumeria! We're headed to your house!
A tiny paradise amidst a sea of skyscrapers: Akihabara.
There we find three warriors who believe that pain is power,
and who fight battles that exist entirely in their heads.
They are...
Unofficial Sentai... Akibaranger!
Kouya susabu reppu wa
A burning gaze stirs the air
Hoshi no koe ka doukoku ka
Does the planet's voice tremble with fear?
Tashika ni tatta yuusha e no geki ka
Looks like it's the beginning of a heroic adventure!
Kizu moshi wo mo itowanai
They're not afraid of being hurt or killed
Nikuki aku wo uteru nara
When it's time to shoot down the hated enemy
Sange no kigai
Brace for spectacular failure,
Guren no hi e tobikome
and throw yourself into a crimson inferno!
Denkou eiri da
The mysterious heroes of Electric Town!
(We Are Akibaranger!)
Shouri no flag wo tatero
Trigger the flag for victory!
A! A! Abunakatta
A! A! Ah, that was close...
Ki! Ki! Keyboard ni
Ki! Ki! Take your keyboard and
Ba! Ba! Bakusui yodare ga tareteta
Ba! Ba! Bash into it as you crash asleep and drool everywhere!
A! A! Anchi no resu
A! A! Already mad about hateful posts
Ki! Ki! Ki ni shisugite
Ki! Ki! Keeping me so tense that
Ba! Ba! Bangohan nodo wo tooranai
Ba! Ba! It feels like I'm gonna barf soon!
Hitokara tokuson matsuri da zekkyou
We may sing toku karaoke alone, but we can really belt it out!
Cho oma (www)
Wait, you-LOL
Yamero (www) tenin (www)
Stop-LOL-here comes the staff-LOL
Ima wa totsuru na (wwww)
Don't come in here now! LOLOL
Akibaranger!
Hikounin Sentai
The Unofficial Sentai!
Episode 5
Oh The Pain ✩ Yellow Mama
Episode 5
Oh The Pain ✩ Yellow Mama
Welcome, pi pa.
This... is an otaku's room?
This is... a girl's room!
Okay, everyone, let's hide all of this otaku stuff!
Why?
It's a classic Sentai trope!
When a parent visits, there'll be a fight over the risks their kids face on the team!
You think Yumeria's mom is going to act like that?
If we make a bad first impression, she won't let us fight together anymore!
Pi pa pa. I do not believe that is likely, po po.
Fool! That lack of caution is exactly what could be our undoing!
Besides, aren't we just having delusions?
It's not like we're actually fighting, so how could she think it's dangerous?
But I guess it is dangerous, in a different way...
Exactly... the public's perception of otaku is as cold as it's ever been!
I don't know how many Chogokin figures my mom threw away...
In fact, just yesterday...
She was going to throw away a hug pillow just like this one!
...hug pillow? Old man, you still live at home?
As a 29-year-old bachelor...
What?
Nothing.
Anyway, if we want to stay together as Akibarangers, we need to conceal our true identities!
That's an underlying theme common in a parental visit episode!
A maiden's closet... is a gateway to the infinite universe, pi po.
You must not open it recklessly, pe po.
Man, what is wrong with you?! Don't dig through someone else's room like that!
You dirty old man!
We'll do all the cleaning, got it?
How could she call me a dirty old man?!
I'm pretty sure that's more hurtful than anything I did...
Stupid normals.
Amazing! A home made costume, for cosplay...
Can you make regular clothes, too?
I have done so in the past, pi pi. I've got them hanging up right now, pi pi.
Yumeria, do you have a boyfriend?!
Uh...
So, Ms. Yumeria, are you currently seeing anyone?
What the hell? Are you trying to score with her?!
No! I'm being serious here!
I do not, pi po.
The males Yumeria prefers exist in another dimension, pi pi.
2D and 2.5D, huh?
I figured.
Can't you two just speak Japanese?
That means... we might be dealing with the second major trope in parental visit episodes.
We'd better be prepared for a marriage interview.
Marriage interview?
There are Sentai episodes where a heroine's parents force a marriage interview, "for my daughter's sake".
But it's really just a scheme to get their kid off the team...
It is unlikely Mama will attempt such a—
Fool!
Chisato from Megaranger was still in high school, and her grandmother of all people brought it up!
You should throw out any preconceptions you might have!
Pi po...
So in that case, Nobu-pi will pretend to be my boyfriend, pi pi.
You got it.
Wait, me?!
I love you, darling!
I love you too, honey.
Really? Then give me a kiss!
Well... if you insist...
Nobuo!
S-Sayaka?!
You're terrible! I was here for you the whole time, and now...
It's not what you think, Sayaka! There's a complicated explanation for this!
I don't care!
Sayaka!
Wait! You're my boyfriend now, right?
Well... yeah, but...
Please wait!
Sayakaaaa!
Your thought process is extremely transparent, pi po.
Anyway, that covers us in case we run into the second scenario.
Is there anything else we should be ready for?
How about something basic?
If we want to hide that she's an otaku, she should probably change her outfit.
Good point! This could get really dangerous!
Is that her mom?!
I believe it is merely a package delivery, pe po.
Idiot, don't answer the door like—
Mama!
Oh no! She's all classy-looking, even!
Ta-da! Pi pi po, long time no see.
Why?
Aw, don't look so surprised!
I always dress like this, po po!
It's nice to meet you. I'm Akagi Nobuo.
I'm Aoyagi Mitsuki.
I'm Masako! I hear you two are looking after my Yuko these days!
Yuko? Oh, is that Yumeria's real name?
That's right, it's actually Yamada Yuko.
YAMA
DA
YU
KO
Didn't she tell you?
Then what's Moegi Yumeria?
Oh come on, even I wouldn't name my daughter something that nerdy!
That's just her cosplay name.
So... you're a cosplayer too, ma'am?
They called me Miyabi back in the day, and I was pretty famous!
Isn't that right, Yuko?
Yeah!
I see... I don't think we have anything to worry about anymore.
Hey Mama, let's walk around Akiba together! Like we used to!
Alright, let's all go!
Alright!
Mom, let's go over there!
Come on!
Yay!
So, that's how things worked out... wanna join us?
Nah, I'm okay. Say hi to her mom for me.
Roger!
Hey you two, come on!
R-Right!
Z-Cune Aoi's Doujin Corner
I know this artist! I used to buy his stuff!
Really? I'm collecting all of his Aoi books, pi po!
Really?!
Yeah!
Hey Mom, look!
There's an Aoi manga? I didn't know about this—
Don't. You don't wanna read that.
Here we are, pi po!
Pi po!
Po po!
I'm not cosplaying!
They've got so much stuff!
Pi pi po pi pi po! Pe pi.
Pi pi pa!
This color is so cute pu pi...
You want it?
It could be your birthday present.
Thank you so much Mama, pi po!
Is today your birthday?
Yeah. I'm now 24 years old, pe po!
Congratulations!
Wow, if I had known, I could have got you something...
Should I get you this?
Oh, this? I think it'd look better on me, wouldn't it?
Miyabi the cosplayer, huh?
Whoa! She really was famous...
Mama! Let's go in here!
Oh, this place!
Yeah! The same one we went to last time.
Last time?
We celebrated her first birthday after moving out here, too!
She came all the way just to see me!
The cake was so good!
Oh yeah! Wow, that really takes me back!
Did you remember, Mama?
Remember how cute their stuff was?
Oh definitely!
It looks like instead of taking Yumeria away, her mom might end up moving to Akihabara.
Yeah. I envy that kind of relationship.
Huh?
This place was open yesterday...
Maybe someone else owns it now?
The grand opening of a host club?
What the hell, a host club?! We don't need that kind of crap in Akihabara!
Hey, look!
What the?!
An Optometrist
Fit for a Host
Were there always so many host clubs around here?
No, there couldn't have been!
This place! It used to be a shop with a lot of great old Sentai toys!
I was gonna buy the Bioman Super-Electric deluxe set!
You're the only one who really pays me any attention, Miya.
Sure I am...
Oh man... Yuki... I could just kiss those lips so bad.
What's with this place?
It's giving me a really bad itch...
Well, I guess I'll order another bottle of Perignon today!
Iki has ordered a bottle of Perignon!
Congratulations!
For this beautiful princess, we will...
...offer up our souls!
That host... where have I...?
Oh yeah! He's Kabukichoargynnissagana!
How?! Didn't we beat him?
So you've already found me...
Sup.
Malshina!
I brought him back to life...
It'd be a waste to let such a fine man die, don't you agree?
We're infesting Akihabara with host clubs,
because our new plan is to annex it into Kabukicho.
Akiba is for people who are bad with the opposite sex!
I'm not letting you people just take it over!
Grand Delusion!
Bang!
Revived monsters are always weaker than the original!
Right, then we can beat him without Yumeria!
Right!
Do you think it'll really be that easy?
Corporate Drones!
Happy birthday!
You've really grown up.
Yeah.
It's the Guerrilla Marketers! Akagi and Aoyagi are fighting them right now...
What do you want to do, Moegi?
I'll go!
Mom, I'm sorry, but could you wait for me for a minute?
Sorry for the wait, pi po!
Yellow!
What about your mom?
It's okay, pe po! Who's the sub-section chief today?
Him.
Master Kabukicho?!
- Hey... - You alright, Yellow?
It's okay, pe po! I intend to fight successfully this time, pi pu!
Come on you two, pi po!
My favorite parental visit episode starred Vul Panther!
Akiba Red!
Akiba Blue!
Now, for me, I tend to get that kind of thing out of my system by drawing doujins—
Pain is power!
Ready?
Unofficial Sentai!
Akibaranger!
Huh?
- Holy crap! Sorry! Can we do that over? - Do over! Do over!
No do-overs!
Yellow!
Whoa... I thought revived monsters were weak!
Last time, since two of you had the power of alcohol, you were stronger than usual.
Akiba Yellow... if you become a regular at my club, I'll let you live.
No thanks, pe po! I'm not interested in you in that way, pi po!
Then get lost!
So that I never have to see you again!
Yellow!
Yumeria!
Looks like Akiba Yellow is done for!
I don't think so!
What?!
Mom?!
How is she here?
Who are you supposed to be?
That's what I'd expect from the kind of aggressive top that Yuko is mega-moe over.
But if you want to torture someone, I'd rather it be a high-and-haughty man than my daughter.
She got that from her mother too?!
Yuko. I'm borrowing this.
It can't be!
Grand Delusion!
Bang!
No way!
The seductive cosplaying MILF!
Akiba Yellow!
Her roll call was better than her daughter's!
You're mine.
One, two,
feels good!
She's really into it...
I think Mom mentioned cosplaying as Miss America once...
I get it! This must be one of those episodes where the parent gets super-excited about what the kid is doing!
You insolent wench!
Kabukichoargynnissagana!
Once you've beaten the MILF...
I'll order another bottle of Perignon.
Thank you so much!
Don't defy a woman who was working during the bubble, Kabuki butterfly...
Let me catch you, and I'll buy ten bottles... or maybe even fifty.
Seriously?!
I can make you into the number one host.
Number one!
He's wide open!
Nice follow-up!
Alright!
Yeah!
- Yeah! - Yeah!
So you're the type that just flutters over to other women? I'm disappointed!
I'm going home!
This is such crap, I don't even...
Wait, please, Malshina! Malshina!
Alright!
Yuko, it's your turn!
Right! Just watch me, Mama!
Grand Delusion!
Bang!
Deka Cuffs!
Bouken Shovel!
Alright!
Okay, let's do it!
We'll end it with this!
Yellow set!
Finisher! Moe Magnum...
Mega Moe Fire!
Here it comes!
I'll be the #1 host... of the afterlife!
Alright!
Yeah!
You did it, Yuko!
Mama!
I had no idea you were having this much fun without me knowing!
Yeah! I'm really enjoying it!
It's all because of the otaku education you gave me!
Really?
I'm glad that you're my Mama.
Thank you for having me.
Alright, let's head back!
Huh?
This is your house...
That's weird. I thought we left with Masako,
and then split up from you two in the city...
And that's when the case started, right?
Huh? What happened to the pink wig?
And... where's your mom?
She was never really there.
My Mama died five years ago.
We got along really well, ever since I was little...
So after I moved to Tokyo, she came to visit me on my birthday,
and we celebrated at that restaurant.
And that was five years ago...
She went home after we promised to go around Akiba again some day...
And a month later she died in a car accident.
It was pretty sudden, so I never got to tell her all the things I meant to say.
Ever since then, I've celebrated my birthday every year with her... although it was just in my mind.
I was going to do that today, too, but...
Moegi's feelings and the parental visit episode that Akagi and Aoyagi imagined synchronized.
I think that allowed her mother to appear in the world created by your delusions.
Then... we... ever since her mother showed up, we were in the delusion world?
Thank you, guys, pi po!
Thanks to you, I was finally able to tell my Mom all the things I never got to say, pi pi!
I'm glad that you're my Mama.
Thank you for having me.
Yumeria...
I thought we were in for a parental visit episode...
But it ends like this, huh?
Moegi! Here's your birthday present.
Thank you, pi po!
We've got cake, too!
Alright, let's party!
To be continued
It's Hakase Hiroyo.
I guess it's obvious by now, but I'm not really a great drinker... some might say that I can't hold my liquor.
One time, I was having drinks with a regular customer at the cafe, and kind of got into a big fight with him...
But still! I mean, the strongest female villain in the history of Sentai has to to be Queen Hedrian, right?!
Nobody else had the same screen presence that she did!
Am I right?! I'm right, aren't I?!
Itakutemo That’s alright!
Even if it hurts, that's alright!
Itsuka sekai wa yume no naka
In my dreams, everything's going to be just fine
Daijoubu That’s alright!
It's okay now, that's alright!
Umaku itteru yume no naka
Everything's just fine now, in my dreams
Ashita wa Akiba no
And tomorrow the same wind will blow
Kaze ga fuku no sa shabadaba
through Akiba like it always does, shabadaba!
The legendary stuntman who portrayed fifteen different Reds, Niibori Kazuo joins the fray!
Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger is a work of fiction.
Watch him use his deadly swordplay to escape from his career's hellish "grey zone"!
Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger is a work of fiction.
Episode 6
Take Flight, Forefather! The Painful Trap at the Delusional Film Set
Next week, good boys and girls still shouldn't watch this!
Episode 6
Take Flight, Forefather! The Painful Trap at the Delusional Film Set
Episode 6
Take Flight, Forefather! The Painful Trap at the Delusional Film Set